ZAGREB, Jan 12 (Hina) - Today's Zagreb-based daily of Vjesnik devotes its front page to the news that Croatian President Franjo Tudjman had vetoed to appoint an opposition Zagreb mayor Goran Granic.
ZAGREB, Jan 12 (Hina) - Today's Zagreb-based daily of Vjesnik
devotes its front page to the news that Croatian President Franjo
Tudjman had vetoed to appoint an opposition Zagreb mayor Goran
Granic. #L#
Focusing on Mostar tensity, the paper carries interviews with
the city Croat mayor Mijo Brajkovic and with Bosnian ambassador to
Croatia Kasim Trnka.
"First session of the Council for Cooperation between the
Republic of Croatia and the Republic and Federation of Bosnia-
Herzegovina was staged on an important moment," Trnka said
referring to a meeting between the top ranking government
delegations held in Sarajevo on Jan 4.
"It was a significant moral encouragement to the Federation
and implementation of the Dayton accords. Hence I believe these
incidents in Mostar should be regarded as a final resistance of
those who build their material and political positions on some
alternative solutions, such as division of Bosnia into three
parts," the ambassador said.
Mayor Brajkovic says that the situation in Mostar is mere
reflection of the situation in Federation as a whole.
"One cannot watch Mostar apart from the Federation. It's a
terrible mistake. The problems of the army, police force, displaced
persons, money... these are the state, not the city-level problems.
We shall continue to work and cooperate. We shall persist in our
project and I am sure we shall succeed," Brajkovic said.
Another Zagreb-based daily of Vecernji List runs on its front
page a headline announcing a U.N. resolution on eastern Slavonia
which was to be adopted Friday.
The paper carries an interview with Silvije Degen, president
of the Social Democratic Action (ASH) party, seen as a successor of
the former party leader, late Miko Tripalo.
"The Left must find a way to get rid of the ancien regime
mortgage and to once for all dismiss any discussion on its national
loyalty," Degen says.
The paper also carries a comment piece on the crisis in the
largest national trade union federation, the SSSH, following the
row between the central administration and its regional and company
chapters over financial issues.
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